This past weekend, I, along with nine other students from Peace Fellowship, had the privilege to head to New York City for a three day seminar hosted by Mennonite Central …
Opinion
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EMU and the Inescapable Progress Machine
The Centennial Celebration this past weekend was an incredible success, drawing unprecedented numbers of families and alumni to campus to participate in over 80 events during a three-day period. A …
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Editorial: See the Person, Not the Numbers
Everyone struggles. I struggle to balance school, my job, being Editor in Chief, and my other activities. Everyone has fears. I fear a day that those I love will leave …
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A Renewed Cycle of Violence in Kurdistan
After traveling to portions of the Middle East on my cross cultural last semester, I returned home with a new framework for understanding and interpreting conflict. I came to the …
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People Are Still People Wherever They Are
We in America have been raised with an unfounded fear of the “other.” In our parents’ generation, it was communism and the Soviet Union, in ours it is terrorism. However, …
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EMU: A University Much Like Many Others
EMU is a wonderful school and does a fairly satisfactory job across the board. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here, but there is one marketing slogan that rubs me …
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Editorial: What Creates a Super Villain?
As I start writing my senior thesis — a science fiction story involving space travel, sentient supercomputers, and communists — I’ve been forced to ask myself a question: what makes …
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An Open Response Letter to Thoreau Zehr
Dear Thoreau, Thank you for taking the time to write the editorial open letter to Student Life Staff that appeared in the Sept. 21 edition of the Weather Vane. Hopefully …
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Why Classical Musical Is Still Important
My sincerest hope is that this title is not off putting. For many years I found classical music to be dull. It all sounds the same, right? Wrong. The misconception …
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Editorial: The Unspoken Power of Empathy
Empathy has always been at the core of who I am. It drives me to help those around me — well, that’s what I used to think. Recently, I have …